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How Singapore Built the World's Most Productive Port
Episode 81 of The Productivity Podcast dives into Singapore's port productivity miracle. Lucas and Luna unpack how the Port of Singapore Authority transformed a tiny island with no natural deep-water harbour into the world's most efficient container port, handling over 37 million TEUs annually. They explore the key innovations: a single digital operating system that coordinates every crane and container, a unique financing model that forced private terminals to compete on efficiency, and a long-term land-use bet that consolidated all container activity at Tuas mega-port. The hosts…
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